On Thursday, the organizations Broadband Commission for Digital Development released a damning world-wide wake-up call on what it calls cyber VAWG, or violence against women and girls. The report concludes that online harassment is a problem of pandemic proportion  which, nbd, weve all heard before.

But the United Nations then goes on to propose radical, proactive policy changes for both governments and social networks, effectively projecting a whole new vision for how the Internet could work.

Under U.S. law  the law that, not coincidentally, governs most of the worlds largest online platforms  intermediaries such as Twitter and Facebook generally cant be held responsible for what people do on them. But the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only license those who agree to do so.

People are being harassed online, and the solution is to censor everything and license speech? Remarkable.